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ANNU PALAKUNNATHU MATTHEW
BOLLYWOOD COWBOYS AND INDIANS FROM INDIA
January 14 to March 8, 2002
Contact Sheet 115
Born in England, raised in India, and currently residing
in the United States, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew has
struggled with issues of identity and her relationship
to the culture of her ancestry, her place of birth,
and her current place of residence. This exhibition
brings together two recent series of work, Bollywood
Satirized and An Indian from India. Both series
pose the question "Where do I belong?" which
is a recurrent thread that runs throughout the artist's
work.
Throughout her career Matthew has used photography as
a means of making connections to her own cultural background,
but also as a method of pointing out those aspects which
distance her from the same heritage. In these two bodies
of work Matthew looks to both historic and contemporary
examples of how images continue to shape perception
and reinforce stereotypes which she must fend off both
as a woman and an Indian (from India).
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